Sunday, August 28, 2005

Senior Iranian cleric hails Islamic state of Iraq

Well, it seems that there are many clerics happy that the Bush regime have turned a relative secular society into something more akin to a theocracy. Iran Focus reports that a senior right wing cleric in Iran has praised the establishment of an Islamic state of Iraq. It seems Bush and the Iranian clerics are in agreement for a change:

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful ultra-conservative Guardian Council, told worshippers in Tehran’s Friday prayers, “Fortunately, after years of effort and expectations in Iraq, an Islamic state has come to power and the constitution has been established on the basis of Islamic precepts”.
“We must congratulate the Iraqi people and authorities for this victory”, he said.